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October 26, 2006

Sophistication

"This essay was commissioned by the guest editors of a special issue of the academic journal Social Text but rejected by the journal's editorial collective on the grounds it was theoretically unsophisticated that included a 'cheap shot' at professors." This message precedes an article by Robert Jensen, who is always worth reading, on academic freedom in Counterpunch. I suppose that can only be the same Social Text that was taken in by Alan Sokal, whose article for that magazine was famously theoretically sophisticated, but also nonsensical.

Posted by hgrodsk at October 26, 2006 07:28 PM

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